The Padre Island National Seashore (PINS) Sea Turtle Science and Recovery Program will merge with the Science and Resources Management Division. Many residents and turtle lovers are outraged about ...

Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program documented the first local turtle activity of the 2025 season on Saturday, April 26. The Sea Turtle Patrol reported ...

Of the world's seven types of sea turtles, the loggerhead, white, hawksbill and leatherback species especially thrive in warm, Caribbean waters. As home to more than half of the world's endangered sea ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The ATV motored its way along the beach, with the eyes of one volunteer and one paid employee scouting for turtles or turtle tracks or turtle nests. Erica Sertl says it has ...

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCIV) — Sea Turtle hatchling season is here and volunteers with the Folly Beach Turtle Watch Program were able to track two separate nests hatch and a female loggerhead turtle lay a ...

A new sea turtle ambassador pilot program is launching later this year in Escambia County. The ambassadors will be more public-facing than the current patrol program. They aim to educate people on how ...

For decades, the public releases of baby Kemp’s ridley turtles at the Padre Island National Seashore have been one of the most popular summer rituals of the Texas Gulf Coast. The feel-good sendoffs on ...

Jacksonville University is partnering with a St. Johns County sea turtle patrol to expand its marine science work to include hands-on research documenting some of Florida’s signature protected species ...

Editor’s Note: Park Superintendent Eric Brunnemann has not responded to any Caller-Times requests for comment. Dr. Donna Shaver has spent a 40-year career creating a program to halt the extinction of ...

The chief of the Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery was given a five-day suspension without pay for allegedly raising her voice at a coworker. People familiar with the sea turtle program at ...